An Indigenous Philosophical Ecology: Situating the Human

Philosophical Issues in Ecology

Dobzhansky’s (1964) sweeping generalization, “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” provocatively captures the centrality of evolutionary theory in biological science (see also Dobzhansky 1973). But his rally call is also grievously partial. Ecology casts the same indispensable light in biology, particularly on evolution. Although the term ‘ecology’ was not coined un...

Industrial ecology: a philosophical introduction.

By analogy with natural ecosystems, an industrial ecology system, in addition to minimizing waste production in processes, would maximize the economical use of waste materials and of products at the ends of their lives as inputs to other processes and industries. This possibility can be made real only if a number of potential problems can be solved. These include the design of wastes along with...

The ecology of interactive learning environments: situating traditional theory

In educational discourse on human learning (i.e., the result of experience) and development (i.e., the result of maturation), there are three fundamental theoretical frameworks, -behaviourism, cognitivism, and constructivism, each of which have been applied, with varying degrees of success, in online environments. An ecological framework of human learning and development in interactive learning...

Situating Spatial Templates for Human-Robot Interaction

Who are we? Indigenous microbes and the ecology of human diseases.